NPR: And So We Meet, Again. Why The Workday Is So Filled With Meetings

Meetings often last longer than they need to, [Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Steven] Rogelberg says, because managers don’t understand Parkinson’s Law. This is the idea, backed up by research, that tasks take as long as the time allotted. If you budget two hours, it takes two hours.